units for this purpose, credit cannot be given for any subject in which less
than 2 units have been completed during the two years, nor for any subject
in which the conditions of the schedule to clause 6 have not been satisfied.

NOTE.—Applications to be admitted to the Intermediate Examination
under paragraph (b), and applications for admission to senior free places
under paragraph (c), must be sent on forms provided by the Education
Department to the Director of Education before the 8th September.

8. (i.) The secondary school shall admit to a senior free place any
   pupil qualified under clause 7 hereof, unless such pupil can attend a
   secondary school nearer his home.

(ii.) Every district high school shall admit to a senior free place any
pupil qualified under the before-mentioned clause, and no such school
shall admit to a senior free place any pupil not so qualified.

9. A senior free place at a secondary school or district high school is
   tenable until the holder has reached his nineteenth birthday : Provided
   that if the nineteenth birthday occurs during a school term or quarter
   the free place shall be tenable until the end of that term or quarter.

10. The secondary school or district high school shall give to each
    holder of a senior free place more advanced instruction in the secondary
    subjects named in clause 6 hereof, and under the conditions set out in that
    clause, except that the proviso contained in the first paragraph of the clause
    shall not be held to apply, and that when the pupil reaches the standard
    required for a lower leaving certificate the requirements of the course pre-
    scribed may be deemed to be satisfied if the pupil receives at least 4 units
    of instruction of a higher standard in English, at least 4 units of like
    standard in each of two other subjects named in clause 3 of the regulations
    for secondary-school certificates, together with instruction in other subjects
    so selected in accordance with the provisions of clause 6 hereof that the
    total number of units completed each year is not in general less than 20.

GENERAL.

11. As a condition of admission to a free place, any candidate may be
    required to furnish to the principal of the school to which admission is
    sought reasonable evidence of good character.

12. Notwithstanding the foregoing regulations, the secondary school
    shall not be required to admit pupils to free places at any other time than
    the beginning of the school year, unless it shall seem expedient to the
    governing body of the secondary school to admit such pupils at any other
    time.

13. In case there shall not be sufficient accommodation at the secondary
    school for all pupils seeking admission to the school, those qualified as
    holders of scholarships under paragraph (a) of clause 3, and under para-
    graph (a) of clause 7 hereof, shall first be admitted, next applicants
    qualified by attainment for senior free places, and then the remaining
    applicants in such order as the Minister, after consultation with the Board,
    shall determine.

14. (i.) A free place, whether held at a secondary school or a district
    high school, or held partly at the one and partly at the other, shall be
    reckoned continuously from the date of the original admission of the pupil
    to a free place in the school first attended.

(ii.) Except as hereinafter provided or as the Director of Education
may decide, any intermission of attendance exceeding a period of three
months in duration shall be deemed to determine the free place ; further,
the free place held by a pupil whose attendance during any term or quarter
falls below 50 per cent. of the possible total of attendance at the school
shall, with a like exception, be deemed to have lapsed as at the close of the
period specified.

(iii.) If, on a report from the governing body of the secondary school
or from an Inspector of Schools, it shall appear to the Director that the
attendance, conduct, diligence, or progress of any free pupil is not satis-
factory, the Director may forthwith, or after due warning, determine the
free place. In any case under review a special report may be required.

(iv.) Any junior or senior free pupil who has forfeited his free place
shall not be eligible for a free place of the same kind, junior or senior
respectively, at any other secondary school or district high school or at a
technical school, nor shall any pupil who for any reason has forfeited his
free place at a technical school be eligible for a similar free place in a
secondary school or a district high school.

15. (i.) Except as provided for in clause 16 hereof, a holder of a free
    place at a district high school or a secondary school shall not be allowed
    to transfer his free place to another school of secondary instruction,
    whether a district high school, secondary school, or technical school.

Provided that, in special cases where it is shown to the Minister's
satisfaction that the free pupil is unable to obtain at the secondary school
or district high school he is attending instruction in the subjects required
for the course of study he desires to follow, such free pupil may, with